Croatia shortens COVID-19 isolation to 10 days

The Croatian Institute of Public Health (HZJZ) on Monday decided to shorten the isolation of asymptomatic COVID-19 patients from 14 days to 10 days.

The isolation of patients with mild or moderate clinical manifestations is shortened if the patient does not have a fever for at least 24 hours and if other symptoms are significantly improved.

Patients with severe symptoms will have to isolate for a minimum of 20 days, which can be reduced to a minimum of 15 days with two negative COVID-19 tests.

HZJZ Director Krunoslav Capak explained to N1 Television that

an infected person’s infectiousness drops significantly after seven days, and after 10 days the person is not contagious.

An amendment was also adopted according to which persons who had laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 disease three months ago do not need further testing if they do not have clear symptoms of the disease.